The flowers of spring are almost here, and though “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May and summer’s lease has too short a date,”* you can make a store or occasion beautiful any time of year with these simple to make tissue paper flowers.

What you’ll need (for each flower):
Six or more pieces of colored tissue paper (or three or more if cut into halves)
Scissors
String or a pipe cleaner
Stick or bamboo pole (for stem)
Tape

Step one: Cut the tissue paper into half or quarters (smaller pieces make smaller flowers).

Step two: Stack at least six piece of tissue paper (can be different colors for a multi-colored flower) on top of one another.

Step three: Fold the paper accordion style along the length of the paper.

Step four: Tie a piece of string or pipe cleaner around the center of the folded stack.

Step five: Shape the ends of the flower petals by curving or otherwise cutting the ends of the folded tissue paper.

Step six: Open the flower by gently pulling up one half sheet of tissue paper at a time from the folded stack until you have a complete flower.

Step seven: Attach string or pipe cleaner with tape to a stick to have a stem for the flower.

Step eight: Make more flowers!!!

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*Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
—William Shakespeare